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70 Aquilae

Above the horizon.  Rise: 5:25 | Tran: 11:10 | Set: 16:56
Alt: 31.68°   Az: 211.10°   Direction: South-South-West

70 Aquilae is a bright giant star of spectral class K5 in the constellation of Aquila.

70 Aquilae visual magnitude is 4.89. Because of its moderate brightness, 70 Aquilae is easily visible to the naked eye from locations with dark skies, while it might be barely visible, or not visible at all, from light-polluted skies.

Image of 70 Aquilae star
DSS2 image of 70 Aquilae. The red arrow shows the motion of 70 Aquilae during the next 10000 years (2.17 arcmin in Right Ascension and -1.83 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

20h 38m 01s
-02° 27’ 40”
01h 44m 25s
22h 22m 27s

J2000

20h 36m 43s
-02° 32’ 59”

Galactic Coordinates

43.21°
-24.49°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for 70 Aquilae.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

4.89
Bright giant

-4.26
K5II
3649K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 70 Aquilae is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 70 Aquilae. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

70 Aquilae is distant 2,202.70 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 10 kilometers per second.

675.68
2,202.70
-10 km/s
0.013 arcsec/y
-0.011"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO144624
SAO144624

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 70 Aquilae rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 92.5°
Max altitude: 36.1°
Azimuth: 267.5°